Bøker av Paul Green

Izzie and Ozzie were off to Nanny and Grandad's for the weekend again and they could not wait to get there, but why?Nanny and Grandad? Sort of! But no, it was more to visit 'Juniper, The Magic Caravan', wahey!Ozzie was talking about how much and why he likes his dinosaur duvet at Nanny and Grandad's so Izzie thought she might be able to get 'Juniper, The Magic Caravan' to make something magical happen for him this time.Could this be the weekend Ozzie starts to believe, just like Izzie, that 'Juniper' may well be magic after all?

This is the Guide of 20 Spiritual articles.Free yourself from the daily life stresses & pressures remembering Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him; who are called according to his purpose."TOTAL COUNT: 20 Spiritual articles

Tells in dialogue, song, dance, pantomime and spectacle the often tragic and always dangerous adventures of early English colonization in America.

The culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games, stories, songs, and beliefs Paul Green's Workbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence was published in 1990. A personal collection of folk traditions, Paul Green thought that these common idioms served to showcase the heritage of mankind.

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colourful history. This encyclopaedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

In Beneath the Pleasure Zones 1 - The Rupture Paul Green created a dystopian world disrupted by the Qliphothic forces of chaos. Its sequel The Polyverse takes us deeper into the inscapes of a ravaged Britain, where the pagans of Leynebridge, the digerati of London and battling fundamentalist militias all struggle to control the flux of reality, under the overview of those sinister cyber-demons the Quantum Brothers.In the midst of these upheavals, Lucas, poet and aspiring scribe of Thoth is still seeking Carla, his capricious sex-goddess, while Lombard the manic virtual reality tycoon undergoes a psycho-sexual metamorphosis that transforms his strategies of control. Ultimately things fall apart, on an apocalyptic scale, taking characters on journeys where everything they most love appears to be destroyed. Magicks work, but not as expected and signs in the sky can be deceptive. But from this maelstrom of horror, wonder and bleak farce, the possibility of Albion's new beginning emerges.Paul Green's other work includes the novel The Qliphoth and the poetry collection The Gestaltbunker. His dramas, which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio, RTE Ireland and Resonance FM, have been collected in Babalon and Other Plays - the title piece being his evocation of occult rocket scientist Jack Parsons. Based in Hastings, he has performed at numerous esoteric and literary events. He is not to be confused with the esteemed psychic biker of the same name, whose fascinating book is also published by Mandrake. insert link here?'Good storytelling always leaves you wanting to know what comes next... Plus Green has a talent for some splendidly epigrammatic and surprising phraseology. The bizarre events become satires for our fears and desires and fantasies about where magic and science and social fragmentation might take us...' (Peter Carroll on Beneath the Pleasure Zones - The Rupture)

With the use of song, music, poetry, dance, pantomime, and story-line, Green has created a colourful symphonic drama, presenting Thomas Jefferson's single-handed triumph over the dissension and discouragement of his fellow Americans to keep alive their ideal of liberty. It is an absorbing story punctuated with high comedy. Originally published in 1948.

When Lucas Beardsley blundered into the Qliphothic Forces of the Polyverse,Britain's reality-consensus was drastically disrupted. Everyday causality was never quite the same again...Now Londoners escape into the virtual-reality thrills of Pleasure Centres plc, while Borderland villages embrace an eclectic neo-paganism. Meanwhile Fundamentalist militias - Mo-Boys and Heavy Shepherds - battle for overall control.In the Borderlands, Lucas works desperate magicks to win back his ex-lover Carla. In London traumatised ex-MOD computer wizard Dr Crowe seeks work with Pleasure Centres - which also employs Carla as erotica producer and Borderland refugee Vivienne, who will be re-invented as an 'artiste'...For Lombard, CEO of Pleasure Centres, has a manic plan to restore the status quo by using Crowe's cyber-skills to manipulate the ancient forces of the Borderlands. However, no-one has reckoned with the emergence of rogue cyber-daemons - the Quantum Brothers - or the horrors of the Feast of Smoke.This first volume of Paul Green's new fiction sequence ends with a bizarre and terrifying climax that defines the world of the forthcoming sequel - BENEATH THE PLEASURE ZONES - The Polyverse...Paul Green's other work includes a novel The Qliphoth, poetry collections The Gestaltbunker and A Beginner's Guide to Radial City as well as plays for radio or stage like The Dream Laboratory, Ritual of the Stifling Air, The Mouthpiece, The Voice Collection and Babalon, his evocation of Thelemite rocket scientist Jack Parsons.

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopaedia catalogues appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short stories, pulp fiction, comic books and video and role-playing games.

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This second edition includes numerous new entries covering film, television, animation, dime novels, pulp fiction, comic books, novels, short stories and video and role-playing games. Categories include Weird, Science Fiction, Space, Steampunk, Romance and Weird Menace Westerns.

Actor Pete Duel, most widely known for his starring role as outlaw Hannibal Heyes in television's ""Alias Smith and Jones"", led an unpredictable and often tumultuous life. This biography reveals the personal aspects of his life, including his political involvement and environmental activism.

Jeffrey Hunter is best remembered today for his roles as half-breed Martin Pawley in John Ford's classic western The Searchers (1956), as Jesus Christ in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings (1961) and as Christopher Pike, the first captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in the original Star Trek pilot. This work chronicles Hunter's entire film and television career from his beginnings as a 20th Century-Fox contract player to his untimely death in 1969 at the age of 42.

Margaret D. Bauer reintroduces one of Paul Green's best plays, The House of Connelly, a first play performed by the renowned Group Theatre of New York in 1931. In so doing, Bauer reintroduces the playwright himself, famous and well respected in his day, but largely forgotten today.

This extensive biography of producer-writer Roy Huggins, best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell), details his personal and professional life. His story is told through exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors and writers who worked with Huggins. The author was granted exclusive access to Huggins' personal memoirs.

Documents the creative history of ""The Virginian"", a TV show. This work investigates the original inspirations for the main character and follows the story through various motion picture adaptations. It focus on ""The Virginian""'s transformation into television. It looks at the ways in which the show changed over time.

This is the story of the dreams and fears that shaped the lives of the Scots in the Cape Fear Valley. It centers around the life of Flora McDonald, friend and protector of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who came here in 1774 with her family to seek a peace she had never known in Scotland.

With easy informality the author sets down his thoughts on education, art, and life in the war-torn world of 1943. Each chapter is complete in itself, but all are built on a central theme. The essence of the theme is that our training and our ideals have become mechanical and sterile, that the simple and perennial values of life are in danger of being forgotten.

For many years Green travelled up and down his native Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina, collecting the folklore of the people of the valley - noting down their speech, beliefs, customs, anecdotes, ballads, epitaphs, legends, proverbs, stories, superstitions, games, folk songs, and the like. The selections from this rich harvest of human laughter and tears represent Green at his best.

Argues that the Western world is out of proportion and on the wrong track in its reliance on science as a way of life for the spirit of man. Green believes that little is to be learned from our mechanistic psychology but that much is to be learned from oriental religious psychology.

There is an unusual range in the twelve stories of this volume, covering the rich legendary lore of the rural sections to the brutally realistic treatment of the poor whites. The stories exhibit a keen ear for the rhythms of American speech and a feeling for the underdog.

A rendering of the text of ""The Lost Colony"", Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony (1867). A model for outdoor theatre, the work combines song, dance, drama, special effects and music to breathe life into shadowy legend.

Chronicles the film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones, from her faltering start as Phylis Isley (her real name) at Republic Studios in 1939, to her re-invention as a major star by producer David O. Selznick. Each of her 24 films, among them The Song of Bernadette, Duel in the Sun, Madame Bovary and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, is discussed in depth.